Former aide at Norman Veterans Center convicted of rape

Tuesday

Dec 11, 2012 at 3:00 PM

A former worker at the Norman Veterans Center was convicted Monday of sexual assaults on two patients.

A Cleveland County jury convicted Jeremy Craig Lyday, 28, of one count of first-degree rape and two counts of forcible oral sodomy and recommended a 12-year prison sentence on the rape conviction, along with an additional five years on the sodomy conviction.

The 2011 case against Lyday was the result of a Cleveland County Sheriff's Department investigation which began after other employees of the veterans central reported suspected sexual assault. Lyday subsequently confessed.